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Fairweather cumulus clouds show cross country glider pilots where the air is going up.
These clouds sit on top of a column of rising air. Cloudbase rises over a day until the clouds disapate.
Good pilots can select growing clouds and head to them.
They then slow down from around 150 km/hr to 90 km/hr and turn at 45 degrees to thermal.